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CIM Tutorial > DMTF > Standards
The DMTF is the industry organization that is leading the development, adoption and unification of management standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise and internet environments. Some of the approved Standards and Initiatives that the DMTF has made public are listed below. Common Information Model (CIM) This is a common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) This initiative is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. Directory Enabled Network (DEN) Initiative The Directory Enabled Network (DEN) initiative is designed to provide building blocks for intelligent management by mapping concepts from CIM (such as systems, services and policies) to a directory, and integrating this information with other WBEM elements in the management infrastructure. Desktop Management Interface (DMI) These standards generate a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop pc, notebook or server. Alert Standard Format (ASF) This specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best serve clients' OS-absent environments. System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) The SMBIOS Specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on Intel architecture systems.
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